Novel Materials for Environmental Remediation Applications
Adsorption and Beyond
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Novel Materials for Environmental Remediation Applications: Adsorption and Beyond presents detailed, comprehensive coverage of novel and advanced materials that can be applied to address the growing global concern of the pollution of natural resources in water, the air, and in soil. The book provides up-to-date knowledge of state-of-the-art materials and treatment processes, as well as details of applications, including adsorptive remediation and catalytic remediation. Chapters include the characteristics of materials, basic and important physicochemical features for environmental remediation applications, routes of synthesis, recent advances as remediation medias and future perspectives. This book offers an interdisciplinary and practical examination of novel materials and processes for environmental remediation that will be valuable to environmental scientists, materials scientists, environmental chemists, and environmental engineers alike.
Key Features
- Highlights a wide range of synthetic methodologies, physicochemical and engineered features of novel materials, and composites/hybrids for environmental purposes
- Presents applications of adsorbents or catalysts for water/wastewater treatment and air purification technologies such as advanced oxidation processes, adsorption, photocatalysis, coagulation, flotation, membrane separation, filtration, and others
- Provides comprehensive, consolidated coverage of novel materials for environmental remediation applications for researchers in environmental science, materials science, and industry to identify in-depth solutions to pollution
Readership
Researchers and graduate students working in environmental remediation and environmental engineering, as well as materials science engineers, chemical engineers, green/environmental chemists
Table of Contents
1. (introduction): Trends in Advanced Materials for Sustainable Environmental Remediation Applications: Adsorption and beyond
SECTION A. METAL ORGANIC FRAMEWORKS
2. MOFs based novel adsorbents for aquatic pollutants
3. MOFs based materials for gaseous adsorption
4. MOFs based materials as soil amendments
5. MOFs as catalysts for advanced oxidation processesSECTION B. OXIDES/HYDROXIDES
6. Layered double hydroxides: from fundamentals to environmental applications
7. Zeolites for environmental purposes
8. Silica based materials
9. TiO2 based photocatalysts against organicsSECTION C. CARBONACEOUS MATERIALS
10. Biochar and Activated Carbon
11. Graphene related materials
12. Carbon Quantum Dots
13. Carbon nanotubes
14. Biomass derived materials (like Agricultural waste/biomass)SECTION D. SPECIAL CLASSES OF MATERIALS
15. Magnetic Materials
16. MXenes
17. Aerogels, Cryogels and Xerogels
18. ZIFs from adsorptive to catalytic remediation applications
19. Synthetic and natural clay-based materials
20. Graphitic carbon nitride: triggering the solar light assisted decomposition of hazardous organics
Product details
- No. of pages: 450
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Elsevier 2022
- Published: September 1, 2022
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323918947
About the Editors
Dimitrios Giannakoudakis
Dr. Dimitrios Giannakoudakis obtained his Chemistry bachelor’s degree from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, continuing with his first master’s degree (“Physical Chemistry & Electrochemistry of Materials”) and his second (“Chemistry Teaching and New Educational Technologies”). In 2012, he became a PhD candidate to the City University of New York (CUNY) focusing on “Nanotechnology and Materials Chemistry.” During his PhD candidacy, he received the James Whittam Award for Research Excellence in Interfacial Phenomena (2016) and his third master’s degree. He continued as a postdoctoral researcher and adjunct tutor at CCNY (2017), at AUTh (2017-2018), and at the Institute of Physical Chemistry of Polish Academy of Sciences (IChF) in Warsaw (2018-2020). Currently, he is Assistant Professor at the IChF. His research focuses on photo/thermo/sono-catalysis, solely or in combination, in diverse environmental and energy applications and on design, functionalization, and physicochemical features characterization of nano-engineered materials/nanocomposites.
Affiliations and Expertise
Assistant Professor, Institute of Physical Chemistry of Polish Academy of Sciences, Greece
Lucas Meili
Dr. Meili is a Full Professor in the Center of Technology at Federal University of Alagoas (UFAL), Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil. Prof. Meili graduated in Chemical Engineering from Federal University of Rio Grande (Brazil) and obtained his Doctorate degree in Chemical Engineering from Federal University of São Carlos (Brazil) in 2009. His areas of interest are focused on separation processes, water and wastewater treatment, and synthesis of materials. Particularly he has interest in processes of adsorption of dyes and pharmaceuticals and synthesis of biochars, clays and carbon quantum dots. He has several publications in peer-reviewed journals and he serves as editor of Water Science Technology and Journal of Applied Water Engineering and Research.
Affiliations and Expertise
Professor, Center of Technology, Federal University of Alagoas, Brazil
Ioannis Anastopoulos
Prof. Dr. Ioannis Anastopoulos is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Agriculture, University of Ioannina, Arta, Greece. His research is focused on the following areas at the estimation of greenhouse gas emissions from agricultural soils after receiving organic and inorganic materials, the fabrication of different adsorbents for wastewater treatment, and the use of organic amendments for soil remediation. He is an author of publications in peer-reviewed journals (> 70 articles) with more than 3000 citations. His name is also included in the 2% top world scientists for the year 2019 (Baas, Jeroen; Boyack, Kevin; Ioannidis, John P.A. (2020), “Data for "Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators", Mendeley Data, V2, DOI: 10.17632/btchxktzyw.2#file-dd0904a8-0eba-4cf3-be4a-c6092261fed5)
Affiliations and Expertise
Assistant Professor, Department of Agriculture, University of Ioannina, Arta, Greece
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